Jane's USAF
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Developers | |
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Pixel Multimedia | |
Publishers | |
Electronic Arts | |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 19, 1999 |
Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
⤏ Go to series page | |
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Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | Comes on two CD-ROMs. Disk 1 is required for playing without Tackleberry's Patch due to SafeDisc DRM[Note 1]. |
Essential improvements
Patches
Version 1.02 Patch
- The Version 1.02 patch provides graphical optimization, improvements and fixes to gameplay. It can be found on most copies of Disk 1 or here.
Tackleberry's Patch
Tackleberry's Patch removes the disc check, fixes all images including bitmaps (.BMPs), ranks, and scroll menus, and fixes support for Windows Vista and 7 (though 8.1 and 10 were observed to work as well). Multiplayer does not work.
Thunderbird's Missions
Thunderbird's Missions adds three new missions and special F-16c model.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Pilots[Note 2] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Menus are 640x480, but the simulation is widescreen. Supports all resolutions listed in Windows. Cockpit is stretched. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | FOV increases with resolution. No custom FOV. | ||
Windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Supports bilinear and trilinear filtering. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | No acceleration. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | Mouse works in menus and is used to toggle cockpit buttons in simulation. No turning with mouse. | |
Mouse Y-axis inversion | Mouse does not control any looking in game. | |
Controller | ||
Controller support | Joysticks are supported. Unknown if gamepads are. | |
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | Joystick is fully remappable. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Speech, engine, background, and effects volume can be toggled separately. A master controller is also available. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Enabled by default for all dialog. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Hebrew | ||||
Spanish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Notes | |
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LAN play | |||
Online play |
Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 266 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 600 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 6.1 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16